Indian Cheetah: Dutee Chand

Dutee Chand has been pioneering a path for Indian sports since the time she burst onto the scene a couple, brief years prior. The runner, the main transparently gay competitor from India, prearranged history in 2019 at the World Universiade in Naples when she turned into the primary Indian to secure gold in a 100m occasion at a worldwide meet. She likewise holds the public record in the womens' 100m and is simply the fifth Indian to partake in the women's 100 meters at the Olympics when she qualified for the 2016 Rio Games. Hailing from Odisha, Dutee Chand comes from a weavers' family and was propelled to take up running as a result of sister Saraswati.

"I need to remain who I am and content once more," Dutee Chand said under two years prior, getting rolling a chain of occasions that saw her getting prohibited as a competitor, turning into the reason célèbre of a sex battle, winning a body of evidence against the International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) and now, in a cheerful end to the story, turning into the main Indian women to meet all requirements for a run occasion at the Olympics. On 25 June, Chand won the silver in the women's 100m run at the Kosonov Memorial International Athletic Meet in Almaty, Kazakhstan, checking in at 11.24 seconds, well inside the Olympic passing norm of 11.32 seconds. "It truly is an awesome inclination," Chand said via telephone from Almaty. "In 2014, I was befuddled and discouraged. I had been tossed out of the public camp. I was being provoked and disgraced. Also, presently I'm going to the Olympics. It's astounding." The primary thing Chand did in the wake of dominating the race was to send a WhatsApp message to her sister, Saraswati, in Bhubaneswar, Odisha.

By: Khusboo

Birla School, Pilani